The Greatest Job Search Tool You’re Not Using

Posted on: 2010-01-15

by Work Her Way Expert Contributor Dr. Lynn Joseph

Today’s job market is more competitive than ever before. A strong resume and interviewing skills are not enough. Give yourself the mental edge, however, and you just may win that job offer.
Visualization Today

Once upon a time society considered creative visualization a flight of fancy, or a desperate measure for desperate people. Today, however, Olympic coaches, highly-trained athletes such as golf great Tiger Woods, Olympic gold medal winning swimming star Michael Phelps, and corporate pioneers, all know success comes more easily and quickly when they first imagine it in detail, and expect it to happen. According to Phelps, whose coach introduced him to visualization at the age of thirteen, “The more you use your imagination the faster you go. If you think about doing the unthinkable, you can. The sky is the limit.”

Extensive research indicates that people who imagine future success outperform those who imagine future failure. Why? Because envisioning success promotes the development of plans and strategies necessary for achieving success. In the process, we become more motivated to make it happen and can often overcome any related anxiety, fear, and lack of self-confidence.

I am often asked how visualization compares to positive thinking. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking (1952, 1996) and Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life (1982), wrote in the latter: “Imaging is positive thinking carried one step further. So powerful is the imaging effect on thought and performance that a long held visualization of an objective or goal can become determinative.” Read More...

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